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...shaded hillside near Haverford College campus, in the heart of Philadelphia's "Main Line" district, a large white tent was set up last week. Into it shuffled an academic procession of delegates from 112 institutions, ranked by seniority all the way from Oxford and Cambridge down through Juniata College (founded 1876) to Reed College (founded 1911). The delegates, among them 50-odd college presidents, had come to help Haverford celebrate its 100th birthday...
Haverford detects an improvement in its breed by the fact that for the past four years Haverford has beaten 131 competitors in the annual Intercollegiate Intelligence Tests of the American Council on Education. Last week Dr. Comfort delivered in Haverford's tent an earnest, soothing address of the sort without which no academic convocation is complete. Calling Haverford's new plan not a new goal but a new technique, he said U. S. education needs no revamping: "What the country needs is ... a moral quickening ... a stiffer backbone...
...only European warrior who could stop the Turks, was respected and feared by Islam. When the crucial fight got under way King John, at the head of troops outnumbered five to one, literally hewed his way with his Polish sabre through the heart of the battle to the tent of the Grand Vizier. When he arrived there Turkey's reign as a great military power had reached a bloody...
...plight of the U. S. theatre as an industry is as sorry as that of any other industry. In October 1929, 30,000 people made their living from show business as actors in burlesque, vaudeville, stock companies, tent shows as well as in legitimate drama and musical presentations. How many of these still have work is not known, but paid-up memberships in the Actors' Equity Association have declined 70%. In Manhattan, the Actors' Fund, Rachel Crothers' Stage Relief Fund and the benignantly tactful Actors' Dinner Club-where nobody knows who pays for two dinners...
...Sachems Flynn and Curry had acted, Holy Joe McKee was designated to enter the campaign as a third major candidate, and the Wigwam became its cheery old self, confident that confusion had been thrown into the ranks of its enemies, and the election of Chief O'Brien assured. The tent was warm with visions of winter feasts to come...